In a Tuesday tweet, Michelle Obama praised LeBron James for his recently-announced I PROMISE School, a joint venture between the Akron, Ohio school system and the LeBron James Family Foundation. The I PROMISE school officially launched on Monday with classes for third and fourth graders. It will expand each year with the goal of having grades one through eight by 2022.

Obama tweeted, “.@BarackObama and I are so proud of @KingJames and @IPROMISESchool. Kids in Akron and across the US are lucky to have you as a role model on and off the court. Keep using your platform for good and giving our kids a chance to shoot for the stars. #ReachHigher #BetterMakeRoom”

The new school's principal, Brandi Davis, is a veteran of the Akron school district, and she has served on the board of the LeBron James Family Foundation since its origination. Davis has worked for Akron Public Schools for 18 years, as a teacher and principal at Central Hower, as an assistant principal at East High School and a principal at Schumacher Elementary School. She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Akron, and lives on the west side.

On Sunday night's eve of the school opening, James tweeted out his own opinion of the school’s opening, noting that he personally missed 83 days of school when he was in the 4th grade. “Tomorrow is going to be one of the greatest moments (if not the greatest) of my life when we open the #IPROMISE School,” Lebron tweeted.

Donald Trump Takes on LeBron James (AGAIN)

As LeBron James' admirers far and wide -- including the business community -- appauded his new school initiative, America's racist, white nationalist president created a uproar, taking to Twitter on Friday night after James spoke calmly and with composure in a CNN interview with Don Lemon recorded on Monday.

The interview largely focused on James’ donating $8 million to create the new I PROMISE School and its focus on teaching and empowering young people who are at-risk, living in poverty with family lives and struggles that are not propelling them into future success.

In response to a question from Lemon about race relations in America, James said that Mr. Trump was using sports to divide the country -- a reality apparent to countless Americans. It is true that in response to earlier insults months ago, that Trump tweeted at James, the basketball legend referred to the president as a 'bum'.

Trump took to twitter after the interview, insulting in a dreadfully disturbing pattern of racist rhetoric, the intelligence of both James and Lemon.

“Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon,” Mr. Trump wrote. “He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!” The reference to 'Mike' is believed to be the debate over who is the greatest basketball player--Michael Jordan or LeBron James.

By Saturday afternoon, even First Lady Melania Trump was involved. The New York Times picks up the story:

Mr. Lemon came to Mr. James’s defense on Saturday morning, tweeting: “Who’s the real dummy? A man who puts kids in classrooms or one who puts kids in cages?” He added the hashtag #BeBest, a reference to an initiative by the first lady, Melania Trump, that aims to help children.

Stephanie Grisham, Ms. Trump’s communications director, said in a statement: “It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the first lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today.”

Ms. Grisham added that Ms. Trump would be open to visiting Mr. James’s new school in Akron.

Scatological comment projected on wall of Trump Hotel Saturday night, apparently by Robin Bell, who has been credited with similar acts previously. (Sorane Yamahira / Bellvisuals.com)

Robin Bell, who has previously projected messages critical of President Trump onto DC's Trump Hotel is credited with turning the presidential word choice of "shithole" into an editorial art installation on Saturday night. The word references countries from which immigration to America is undesirable in the view of the president and other immigration hardliners. The light show by the "projectionist provocateur" including other slogans about the Trump presidency.

The word was used to describe countries like Haiti, El Salvador and countries in Africa. Trump expressed his preference for people from countries like Norway.

Most Republicans have been mum about Trump's racist remarks but Utah Rep. Congresswoman Mia Love has joined Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake in condemning the conversation articulated by Dem. Sen. Dick Durbin and backed up by S.C. Sen. Lindsey Graham, both senators in the meeting where Trump ambushed them by inviting immigration hardliners to hear the proposal worked out by a bipartisan group of three Democrat and three Republican senators. Graham said he would not comment further and had expressed his thoughts on Trump's comments directly to him in front of others. Graham's SC colleague Rep. Sen. Tim Scott said he was told the word "shithole" was used, presumably by Graham.

Rep. Mia Love, the first Haitian-American elected to Congress, said on CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday, "I can't defend the indefensible. You have to understand that there are countries that struggle out there. But their people, their people are good people and they're part of us. We're Americans."

"The (President's) comments are unkind, divisive, elitist, and fly in the face of our nation's values," Love said in a statement Thursday night. "The President must apologize to both the American people and the nations he so wantonly maligned."

Nana Akufo-Addo, who assumed the presidency of Ghana last January, took to Twitter to denounce Trump's use of "shithole" to describe countries like his own. The shocked reverberations to Trump's comments have rocked the world of diplomats and ordinary citizens, many of who love America if not our president.

There's a note of irony in Trump's haughty views about places like Haiti. While Trump's all cash sales of his condos to Russians is well-established amid accusations of money laundering, even I didn't know that America's president personally handled the sale of a Trump Tower condo to the despised Haitian dictator Baby Doc.

Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier lead a reign of terror in Haiti, accused by Human Rights Watch in 2011 of selling dead Haitians' body parts to finance his high-flying lifestyle. The Daily Beast wrote about Trump personally handling the condo sale, noting that "the Stroock & Stroock & Lavan law firm—hired by the Haitian government to search out assets Duvalier had stolen from the Caribbean island-nation—only found out Duvalier owned Apartment 54-K because the dictator hadn’t paid his phone bill. The Haitian government put a lien on the property after he fled."